Where to stay in Duisburg

Duisburg is a major city in western Germany, located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. With around half a million inhabitants, it is one of the largest cities in the Ruhr area and part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, one of the biggest population centers in Europe.

Contemporary Duisburg is a result of numerous incorporations of surrounding towns and smaller cities. It is the twelfth-largest city in Germany and the fifth-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia. The core city was founded in the 5th century AD as a marketplace on the Westphalian Hellweg trade route, a ford on the river Rhine and the border between the Frankish Empire and the Duchy of Saxons. Around 740 it became one of several royal courts of Francia, it was first mentioned in a chronicle dated 883 AD as one of the Rhenish places conquered by Normans.

Getting around

Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG (DVG) operates a network of three tram and 32 bus lines. Tram U79 links Duisburg and Düsseldorf, offering a slower alternative. Moreover, Duisburg is served by line S1 of the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr network, which covers the region with local trains. All three trams, 901, 903 and U79, pass the city centre underground, sharing two (Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) and König-Heinrich-Platz) of the four underground stations there.

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